I've experienced a "Blackout"!

[D-EJ915]

Re: I've experienced a "Blackout"!

Well, you still are the only one iin the world to say that... and if it was in a mahogany guitar, it's quite normal, Warpigs have a tremendous amount of fat bass... I prefer the tightness of the Miracle Man.

I think for what they are, they are good. But the people who buy them will hype them up to feel better themselves since they are so expensive.

They're probably great, but they're nothing special, really, just pickups. People make a bigger deal out of them than I've been able to figure out.

 

[Metalblaze]

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I really liked the sound people are getting with the Miracle Man and the Blackouts seem to have some great characteristics if you pay attention to the clip. It really IS a tough decision for me.......

I was looking at the Adder Plus Persuader Lead Custom too. It's very punchy (that punch from the Blackout clip reminded it to me) but a little too smooth. Like JB's smoothness. I'd like something more rough.

 

[eternal_metalhead]

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Hehe, looks like we have similar tastes.

 

[Darth Nihilus]

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Well, you still are the only one iin the world to say that... and if it was in a mahogany guitar, it's quite normal, Warpigs have a tremendous amount of fat bass... I prefer the tightness of the Miracle Man.

Nah, it had a Maple neck and Alder wings. I thought they suck.

 

[Metalblaze]

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Hehe, looks like we have similar tastes.

 

[eternal_metalhead]

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Do the blackouts have more "tone", if you know what I mean ? More character...

 

[fullfistrock21]

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they are supposed to have like 10% percent more tone, so i guess more organic less sterile, and warmer.

 

[fullfistrock21]

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The “other” USA-made active humbuckers use unbalanced inputs in a differential preamp. The problem is, an unbalanced differential preamp is not very effective at cancelling hum. Our engineers figured out how to capture the tone that players want in an active design, but using balanced inputs. The result is 12dB to 14dB less noise, plus more lows, more highs, and more output. Simply put, Blackouts have more tone than other active pickups.

 

[eternal_metalhead]

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But more lows and highs don't mean tone... I mean being more organic, fluid, crunchy not fizzy, raw and soft at the same time. It's a little complicated to explain.

 

[fullfistrock21]

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tone usually is, its an ear thing i guess

 

[fullfistrock21]

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if all the circuitry on the guitar had an active eq then anyone can get the tone they wanted i dont know why there arent more guitars with active controls, ultimate toneshaping seems to be the goal of all these tone seekers

 

[Darth Nihilus]

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As one of the few people who's had the chance to play a Blackout, I can say that their distortion characteristic is crunchy and NOT fuzzy like EMG's.
They sound thicker, fuller with less compression, more dynamics and higher gain. Based on this, I feel the Blackouts indeed have more tone!

 

[Ang3lus]

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more gain.. hmm.. love...

 

[eternal_metalhead]

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More crunch.. love ! hehe !

Hey fullfistrock21, do active pickups work with these circuits ? Which one are good ? I'd put one in the guitar I'll make for sure... Worth the 150$ investment !

 

[fullfistrock21]

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active pickps need a stereo jack and 25 k pots with enough space for a battery, if you already have emgs you can do the swap easy with a lil bit of soldering if you dont you might route a space for a battery....if you dont have enough room... they will work with the same circuitry as emgs if thats wat you were asking, but they wont work with livewires they use 100k pots and have a different design.

 

[Darth Nihilus]

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My Blackouts have arrived!!!

 

[Darth Nihilus]

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Yeah, I got my Blackouts tonight and installed a set in my Les Paul Custom.....
I'm taking them out! The reason is quite simple, they're distorting my clean channel. The 7-string Blackout didn't distort my clean channel. The distortion is
still just as crushing as the 7-string Blackout I tried but I need my cleans, so I guess I'm still an EMG guy for actives.

Sorry guys.:disappoin

 

[Zerberus]

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I assume you already tried lowering them or reducing the gain on the clean channel?

 

[Darth Nihilus]

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Sure. I couldn't even set the neck pup far enough for it not to distort.
Oh well. Back to EMG.

 

[Pierre]

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Less midrange, less master volume...if it still doesn't work then WOW. You need a bigger amp


Come on. It's the perfect excuse man!